Key findings from last year’s study of Poland’s population were announced by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) on Monday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
As of 2021, 99.7 percent of people living in Poland were Polish citizens
The 2021 census shows that 99.7 percent of people who lived in Poland at the time, or 37.9 million, were Polish citizens. This is a similar figure to the 99.8 percent recorded in the previous census, in 2011, GUS said.
As of 2021, there were four times as many Ukranians as in 2011
Meanwhile, non-Polish residents numbered 111,800, up from 55,400 in 2011, with Ukrainians accounting for 47.4 percent, almost a four-fold increase on 2011.
Belarusians represented 16.6 percent of non-Polish residents and European Union citizens 13.9 percent.
Some 4.4 percent of non-Polish residents were Russian citizens, 3.2 percent were German citizens and 2.5 percent were the citizens of Vietnam.
In terms of gender, the majority of non-Polish residents were male, 53.2 percent, although the majority of Ukranians, 53.5 percent, were female.
In addition, less than a hundred people declared themselves to be stateless, while for some three hundred nationality could not be established, GUS said.
As of 2021, 97.9 percent of Poland’s population were born in the country
When it comes to birthplace, 97.9 percent of Poland’s population, or 37.3 million, were born in the country, the 2021 census found.
Foreign-born residents numbered 748,000, an increase of over 73,000 compared to 2011, GUS stated.
Among them, 23.5 percent were born in Ukraine, 16.9 percent in the UK and 12.8 percent in Germany.
The number of Britain-born residents of Poland has more than tripled since 2011, GUS noted.
Meanwhile, the number of foreign-born children in Poland rose from 101,800 to 264,400 in the same period.
As of 2021, "Just over 98 percent of Poland’s population were born in Poland and had Polish citizenship. The number of Poles born abroad totalled 645,000," GUS concluded.
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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl